Simple GUI tool for tracking port updates - portrac

mgp

mgp

Hi guys,
I wrote a small tool for tracking port updates. It's based on Qt4 and integrates with the system tray (so it won't bother you too much ;) )
It just shows a list of your installed ports that have updates, nothing more, updating the ports is up to you.

Please give it a try if you think this is something you might need.
Any questions, comments, remarks, suggestions...whatever feedback is welcome.

thank you

http://portrac.e-soul.org/
http://e-soul.org/distfiles/portrac-0.1b-port.tar.bz2

P.S. this is the first version so it could have bugs and it certainly misses features :)
 
Hi,
thanks for the comments :)
I've just made an update which makes the whole thing a lot faster (over 15-16 times). I've made it capable of handling compressed indices which saves really a lot time and bandwidth on both ends.
Now the default index is http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/INDEX-8.bz2
you could delete ~/.portrac and restart portrac or just set a compressed index via the preferences dialog.

on my machine it calculates the updated ports using a compressed index for seconds

cheers :)

P.S. of course it could still handle plain text indices
 
Hi nal,
thanks for your remark,
adding the possibility to update the ports is not that simple. Everyone has his/her own way of updating ports. For the moment I intend to keep this tool simple and doing just this updates tracking thing.

cheers
 
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